'fake' cutting?

What is this some sort of trend now? I would be highly offended by this. REAL people with REAL issues SI and cannot control it and struggle with it daily. And some group of kids thinks it's cool. I am very upset by this........

Ok rant over. Sorry had to get that out. I don't understand kids anymore. I am 34, so I am not that "old" yet, but I just don't get what they do anymore. Have I become that out of touch?

hey skully, i have a 15 year old son and i cant keep up with their trends .but i do know that this fake cutting has become cool atleast among his friends,being someone who fights this for real myself,i get very upset with them for doing this.

I'm 18 and I keep doing my best to remember what it was like in middleschool and elementary school. The mindsets and lessons are so very different that it's excruciatingly easy to forget.

Children in middleschool often just don't know. They don't know what's going on on the outside and they don't know what's going on on the inside. They struggle desperately to understand and emulate the adults that seem so sure and just do things. So if it might be normal that some people cut, then they would pick that up to seem more normal. Or if it seems interesting in some strange way, they certainly don't want to be boring, they want to adapt aspects that will make others interested. So having some sort of rare trait would boost other's interests.

At least, that's what I think is going on.

I know how you feel. I have a friend aswell as myself that Self Harms, and someone took the mick out of her. It makes me so angry because none of them know why she started. Maybe if they were in our Shoes for a Day they would understand how hard it is and how much things like that can hurts us.
Loz.

I can understand that kids want to be 'normal' (define normal nowadays), but doing it by SI'ing isn't the right thing to do...I just don't understand this and I think something has to be done, and fast.

At school we have the anti-bullying assemblies, handbook assemblies, what to wear to school assemblies, the 'smoking-will-kill-you' assemblies, but never have we had a self harming assembly, and I think it's about time we did. Kids need to take this seriously before anyone does permanent damage to themselves. But how to approach asking about it...I'm just not very sure at the moment.

I have no patience with people like this. Someone who SI's for real will never show it, never talk about it. It enrages me that people take this topic so lightly when I have scars on my body that will never go away, evereverever. They've been there for years. And having to explain to every person who sees them is something I'd rather not have to do.

Yes I know it's awful.
What's worse is I do not believe my school will put the letter I emailed them into the school paper.

It must be too graphic for our petty school to handle I suppose. Pathetic